US Patent Issued on Sept. 29 for "Methods for tight oil production through secondary recovery using spaced producer and injector wellbores" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,747,657, issued on Sept. 29.

"Methods for tight oil production through secondary recovery using spaced producer and injector wellbores" was invented by Xuebing Fu (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some methods of production hydrocarbons from a formation comprise drilling two or more horizontal wellbores in the formation, at least a portion of each extending in a direction that is within 20 degrees of parallel to a direction of maximum horizontal stress of the formation. The horizontal wellbores can include one or more producer wellbores and one or more injector wellbores, each of the producer wellbore(s) separated from at least on...